Re: [PATCH v6 2/2] staging: ion: create one device entry per heap

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 03:01:42PM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote:
> On 12/02/2017 07:53 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> > > This is one of the item in the TODO list before been able to unstage ION
> > > which is my real need.
> > Why does it matter where in the tree this code is?  Don't go adding new
> > things to it that are not needed.  Who needs this?  What userspace code
> > wants this type of multiple ion devices?
> > 
> 
> Requirements came in from several places to split /dev/ion -> /dev/ion0
> and /dev/ion1 so that security policy (i.e. selinux) could be used to
> protect access to certain heaps. I wanted the ABI to be settled before
> trying to move out of staging, hence the line in the TODO list about
> doing the split.

Ok, but we should have some way of testing it works, right?  :)